Original Article

Hydrogenated fat consumption affects cholesterol synthesis in moderately hypercholesterolemic women

Correspondence to: Peter J. H. Jones

To determine mechanisms by which hydrogenated fat influences plasma lipid levels, 14 women (65;–71 yrs with LDL-C 130 mg · dl^-1) consumed, for 5-week periods each, a baseline (BL) diet (39% kcal fat, 164 mg chol · 1000 kcal^-1) and reduced fat diets (30% kcal) where two-thirds of the fat was either soybean oil (SO), low trans squeeze (SQM), medium trans tub (TM), or high trans stick (SM) margarines, or butter (BT). Plasma lipid levels were analyzed at the end of each phase. Fractional synthesis rates (FSR) in pools/day (p · d^-1) and absolute synthesis rates (ASR) in grams/day (g · d^-1) of free cholesterol (FC) were measured using the deuterium incorporation methodology. Plasma total (P < 0.01) and low density lipoprotein (P < 0.05) cholesterol levels increased with increasing degree of hydrogenation or saturated fat intake. High density lipoprotein cholesterol levels (P < 0.05) were lowest on the SM diet when compared to the BT diet. Low trans SQM (0.081 ± 0.019 p · d^-1) and medium trans TM (0.086 ± 0.029 p · d^-1) diets elicited responses similar to the SO (0.078 ± 0.024 p · d^-1) diet, whereas high trans SM (0.053 ± 0.029 p · d^-1) diet mimicked the BT (0.062 ± 0.017 p · d^-1) and high fat BL (0.053 ± 0.023 p · d^-1) diet in its suppression (P < 0.05) of FSR-FC. ASR-FC, which is an approximation of the daily production of newly synthesized cholesterol, showed a trend similar to the FSR-FC data.

These results indicate that reduced synthesis is not responsible for the higher plasma TC levels seen with consumption of the SM, BT, and BL diets, and suggest that another mechanism, possibly impairment of the catabolic pathway of cholesterol, is involved.—Matthan, N. R., L. M. Ausman, A. H. Lichtenstein, and P. J. H. Jones. Hydrogenated fat consumption affects cholesterol synthesis in moderately hypercholesterolemic women. J. Lipid Res. 2000. 41: 834;–839.

Supplementary key words: reduced fat diets, margarines, hydrogenation, trans fatty acids, cholesterol synthesis

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